Word out of Michigan is that Kante is hanging with Coach Howard at the Big House. If he doesn’t give a verbal this weekend we are still in it. Not looking good for RU. Let’s hope Gavin is more influential than Juwann.
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I think he has silently verballed to Michigan at this point and the visit to Ann Arbor is just window dressing at this point.
I’m sure he doesnt have a problem with RU, we just needed to offer a higher salary.
Latest I saw back from a month ago, It was between Michigan, USC and Cincinnati. I think we were out of it for a while.
The dreaded “double secret silent verbal”…lol. Let’s just call it what it is… he must have just cashed the check.
I haven't seen USC or Cincinnati involved anywhere
Think you confused that with Isaiah collier
Of all the annoying, circular logic, nonsensical things some Rutgers fans say, this has to be at or near the top.
That is a lame excuse for losing a recruiting battle which happens to every school.Recruits have options especially those that are 4 star players.
Kante wants the same thing Howard had, a long career as a big man in the NBA. Hard to blame Kante for going that way.
Howard was a much better NBA player than Jordan, is a much better recruiter than Jordan, and can teach a big man what to do to be succupessful in the league. And just last year he had freshman PF/Center Diabate, who is very similar to Kante, get drafted.
While all those are true, they are not really relevant to the point. If NBA pedigree were a big deciding factor, Jordan would have been a better recruiter. The fact that Howard is a better recruiter than Jordan can just mean he connects better with kids and works at a school with a much better hoops tradition than Jordan did. Jordan was an NBA head coach after all. And the last time Howard was a relevant NBA player todays recruits were just getting out of diapers. In 2007 he scored 1 pt/game for Dallas in 50 games played. And the best he ever did after that was 6 pts/game in 2009. None of todays recruits know him from his playing days.
What do you mean the best he ever did was 6 points a game?? He averaged over 17 points a game in 9 different NBA seasons, with a high of 22 points a game in 1995. He was one of the best big men in the game during his career.
Are we pretending that Michigan is a ridiculous option compared to Rutgers? Not gonna get em all
Yea, most are pretty sure RU is better than every school. Haha. Michigan is a better program and a better school. I’d expect someone to choose them 80% of the time over RU.
I meet lots of Michigan folks in southwest Florida. For Michigan folks, the same enmity exists between Michigan/Michigan State that exists for Virginia folks between UVa/Va Tech. Class warfare.
We probably did and offered the cliff deal but his set of competition was too stiff in that department.